Studying front of car before driving (8)

I believe the answer is:

cramming

'studying' is the definition.
(cramming is intense study)

'front of car before driving' is the wordplay.
'front of' says to take the initial letters.
'before' says to put letters next to each other.
'driving' becomes 'ramming' ('ram' can be a synonym of 'drive').
The first letter of 'car' is 'c'.
'c'+'ramming'='CRAMMING'

(Another definition for cramming that I've seen is " Stuffing - studying hard".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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